Antique Rugs for Everyone

07-12-2010By: Nicole

Antique rugs are similar to most other antiques in that they
are old.They would most likely have to
have been well-made old rugs, in fact.Unlike other antiques though, antique rugs would tend to have seen a bit
more use than maybe an antique dresser or table or chairs. Unlike the antique
tables, chairs, dressers, and such, the antique rugs most likely got walked
on.A lot.It may even have been used such that it could
have had treatment similar to having a World Cup match played on it over the
years.

Antique rugs, no matter where placed in the home, would have
been the recipient of all sorts of dirt being tracked in.The type of antique rugs most folks are
probably familiar with would be the Persian rug.These would have been hand-woven old rugs
designed to stand up to the abuse of life.

Maybe the antique rugs were allowed to become old rugs
because they were used as a wall tapestry.Maybe the old rugs were allowed to become antique rugs by virtue of
being stored in the attic (or warehouse or closet).But however it happened, the old rugs were
allowed to became old and thus, antique.

Antique rugs are not like that shag carpet the cheap
developer installed over the sub floor in order to save a few bucks on the
houses in the thrown together subdivision.The antique rugs most likely would not be reaching the status of old
rugs if they’d been installed like that.If someone were to go back in time to meet the rug weaver, the weaver
would probably be astounded that the handiwork they’d labored over could be
considered so very valuable just because it’s old.

As antique rugs, the rugs would not have been subject to
chemical cleaning as so many rugs are today.The owner or a family member probably took the rug off the floor or
dirt, hung it over a wire or rope and took a stick and beat it to “clean”
it.In fact, that would be the genesis
of the phrase “rug-beater.”It’s
doubtful that most folks actually think about the household staff that were
responsible for their now antique rugs back in the days before it became an old
rugs available to be called antique.They just enjoy that they have an old rug that is old enough to be
identified as an antique rug.Antique
rugs can’t talk or sing or tell the tales of history.